Pragmatics Always Matters: An Expanded Vision of Experimental Pragmatics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Much of the work in experimental pragmatics is devoted to testing empirical hypotheses that arise within the study of linguistic and philosophical pragmatics.
Raymond W. Gibbs, Herbert L. Colston
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Editorial: Experimental Approaches to Pragmatics
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Valentina Cuccio +4 more
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Cognitive pathways to communicative-pragmatic dysfunction in schizophrenia: The role of autistic symptoms [PDF]
Schizophrenia Research: CognitionBackground: Communicative-pragmatic dysfunction is recognized as a core feature of schizophrenia, as well as a hallmark of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), strongly intertwined with neurocognitive and sociocognitive domains.
G. Agostoni +15 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionWe present a cross-linguistic experimental study that explores the exhaustivity properties of questions embedded under wissen/to know and korrekt vorhersagen/to correctly predict in German and English.
Lea Fricke +3 more
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Figurative Archive: an open dataset and web-based application for the study of metaphor [PDF]
Scientific DataResearch on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into a range of linguistic and cognitive processes. At the same time, the demand for rigorously constructed and extensively normed experimental materials
Maddalena Bressler +11 more
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Development and Validation of a Rapid Tool to Measure Pragmatic Abilities: The Brief Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates (APACS Brief) [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesPragmatics is key to communicating effectively, and its assessment in vulnerable populations is of paramount importance. Although tools exist for this purpose, they are often effortful and time-consuming, with complex scoring procedures, which hampers ...
Luca Bischetti +15 more
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Children’s and Adults’ Sensitivity to Gricean Maxims and to the Maximize Presupposition Principle
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Up to age 5, children are known to experience difficulties in the derivation of implicitly conveyed content, sticking to literally true, even if underinformative, interpretation of sentences.
Francesca Panzeri, Francesca Foppolo
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The Role of Literal Features During Processing of Novel Verbal Metaphors
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 When a word is used metaphorically (for example “walrus” in the sentence “The president is a walrus”), some features of that word's meaning (“very fat,” “slow-moving”) are carried across to the metaphoric interpretation while other features (“has large ...
Camilo R. Ronderos +4 more
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Experimental Contrastive Pragmatics Using Robots [PDF]
Contrastive Pragmatics, 2020 Abstract In this paper, we explore how robots can be used to study pragmatic strategies across a number of languages. Robots can assume many of the roles played by human interaction partners in a range of situations. They can be programmed to produce specific behaviours, each time repeating a behaviour in an identical way for as often as necessary ...
Fischer, Kerstin; id_orcid 0000-0003-1987-5344 +1 more
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Egy interfész jelenség: indexikális demonstratívumok azonosító fókuszban [PDF]
Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2015 An interface phenomenon: indexical demonstratives in focus *** This paper presents the results of an experiment regarding the use of Hungarian indexical demonstratives where it is shown that the use of indexicals depends on the nature of the context ...
Tóth, Enikő, Csatár, Péter
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